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Rici Lake wrote:
Well, the nice thing about % (and //) is that they don't add any precedence levels. I agree that adding precedence levelscomplicates things very quickly -- I can never remember all of C's, for example, and always over-parenthesize bitwise operators. So perhaps one of the criteria would have to do with that.
Come to think of it, the fact that in C, << and >> have higher precedence than & ^ | seems unintuitive (I recall having read the even C creators regret this design choice) and has bitten me already. In the unlikely hypothesis that these operators get implemented, should the authors keep the historical precedence (easier to handle for C people, easier to convert C code to Lua) or a more logical one?
I admit that using functions calls solves this problem at once. ;-) -- Philippe Lhoste -- (near) Paris -- France -- http://Phi.Lho.free.fr -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --